Author Name: Science Daily Even at historically low natural gas prices, bioenergy may not be out of the running -- it just may need a little help from the sun. A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota examining the financial viability...

Author Name: Science Daily In a recent study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have used new technology to study extremely fast processes in solar cells. The research results form a concrete step towards more efficient solar cells.
The upper...

Author Name: Science Daily UNSW Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported.
The record efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before...

Author Name: Science Daily Researchers from North Carolina State University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have found that temperature-controlled aggregation in a family of new semi-conducting polymers is the key to creating highly...

Author Name: Jim Wallace, Solar Power Portal The safe operation of solar PV installations under both normal and fault conditions is an essential consideration at the system design stage to ensure that proper energy outputs and safety levels are achieved...

Author Name: Science Daily An engineering team at the University of California, San Diego developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrating solar power plants designed to absorb and convert to heat more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures...

Author Name: Lucy Woods, Solar Power Portal he first UK solar bond has been successful, and is oversubscribed with £600,000 excess.
The bond is the first to be certified by the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme, an investor tool used...

Author Name: Science Daily Ohio State University researchers report that they've succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device.
Key to the innovation is a mesh solar panel, which allows air to enter the battery, and a special...

Author Name: Science Daily Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has taken a...

Author Name: Science Daily For decades, polymer scientists and synthetic chemists working to improve the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells were hampered by the inherent drawbacks of commonly used metal electrodes, including their instability...

Author Name: Micaela Torterola, Greenmatch There are three different types of solar panels and they vary in efficiency (the amount of sunlight converted into electricity), price and materials. Monocrystalline Solar Panels read more Read More...

Author Name: Judy Pearson, Blonde Ag Advisor There have always been two tiers of solar, small on farm schemes (generally up to 250kW) that are supported by the Feed In Tariff (FiT) and larger schemes (generally from 2MW to over 20MW) that are supported...

Author Name: Peter Bennett, Solar Power Portal The guidance has been published by the NFU, the National Solar Centre (NSC) and the Solar Trade Association (STA to demonstrate best practice for coupling solar farms with conventional agriculture.
The NFU...

Author Name: Micaela Torterola, Greenmatch Why is energy efficiency important? The first and arguably the most important step in maximizing the benefits of solar energy is to improve the energy efficiency of your farm. By doing this, you will lower the...

Author Name: Philip Proefrock, inhabitat Sicily has just announced the opening of the world’s first concentrated solar power (CSP) facility that uses molten salt as a heat collection medium.
Since molten salt is able to reach very high temperatures...

Author Name: Science Daily A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent...

Author Name: Glendale PR A new US energy technology, which uses robotics to control solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and trackers to ensure they generate the maximum possible energy from sun rise to sun set, has arrived in the UK.
Aimed at farmers and landowners...

Author Name: University of Sheffield Solar cells made using a process like spray painting to produce a photovoltaic active layer have been developed by a research collaboration between scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge. The method...

Author Name: Farm Power Project Forum for the Future partnered with founding partners Farmers Weekly and Nottingham Trent University to launch Farm Power. It is a multi-year, collaborative project involving multiple partners.
The project aims to bring...

Author Name: Science Daily Perovskite solar cells use a hole-transportation layer, which promotes the efficient movement of electrical current after exposure to sunlight. However, manufacturing the hole-transportation organic materials is very costly...

Author Name: Maurice Goris, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) Solar energy is hot. In the Netherlands, more and more companies and consumers are installing panels on their offices, homes or outbuildings. After all, they are sustainable....

Author Name: Richard van Noorden, Nature A common chemical used as a bath salt and in the making of tofu can replace a toxic, expensive chemical in the manufacture of high-tech solar cells. Although not all experts agree, the authors of the study say...